Franklin Foer Quotes
We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.
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Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.
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In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
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We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.
